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“…Las percepciones y los discursos sobre la indianidad marcan un recorrido tan complejo como la evolución de la historia occidental y sus relaciones con América durante cinco siglos. …”

“…He was deeply interested in the conflict between the Netherlands and the Republic of Indone-sia, as it broke out in 1945. This fascination has never left him, and he has continued to study the conflict and its aftermath, especially during the years 1948-1950 when he was in Indonesia for his Dutch military service…”

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“…Enter formulas more efficiently, and fully control operators and dates Master the most widely-used functions in Excel Integrate external data from the web and other sources Easily transform complex datasets with Power Query Quickly summarize millions of records with Pivot Tables Perform ad hoc analyses with slicers and other filters Create advanced data mashups with Power Pivot Solve complex problems with What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver Automate repetitive tasks by editing recorded VBA code Demystify data with conditional formatting and other visualization techniques Use the newest maps, charts, and data types in Excel Show geographical changes over time with animated 3D maps Use dynamic array functions: SORT, FILTER, UNIQUE, SORTBY and SEQUENCE Find insights using Excel’s new artificial intelligence Collaborate via Excel 2019’s breakthrough CoAuthoring tools Publish Power BI Desktop dashboards based on Excel data…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to business intelligence today -- Defining business intelligence today -- The history of business intelligence within your organization -- The scope of BI solutions today and how they may relate to you -- Elements of BI solutions : the end user experience -- The impact of business intelligence on roles within the enterprise -- Corporate performance management and the executive view of business intelligence -- Enterprise content management, unstructured data, text analytics, and enterprise search -- End user segmentation -- Justifying business intelligence solutions and measuring success -- Platform selection, technology biases and other "traps" -- Intelligent responses to an RFI/RFP and setting up a proof of concept -- End-user support and productivity -- Implementation of business intelligence solutions -- The impact of service oriented architectures (SOA) on business intelligence solutions -- Enterprise portals, mashups, and other user interfaces -- An end user survival guide -- Checklists for BI planning -- Speculation on the future of business intelligence…”

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